Table 2.
Demographic characteristics and prevalence of nutrition risk factors of patients in the nutritionDay cohort 2006–2015, in the four studied groups.
| Medical | Surgical | Long-Term Care | Others | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | n (%) | Mean ± SD | n (%) | Mean ± SD | n (%) | Mean ± SD | n (%) | Mean ± SD |
| Age (year) | 59,046 | 65.1 ± 17.2 | 61.2 ± 18.0 | 80.7 ± 12.4 | 61.2 ± 18.8 | |||
| Gender (female) | 28,535 (49%) | 30,445 (49%) | 6937 (62%) | 9992 (51%) | ||||
| Weight (kg) | 52,735 (89%) | 71.3 ± 19.4 | 71.9 ± 18.1 | 66.4 ± 16.9 | 71.8 ± 18.3 | |||
| Height (cm) | 52,735 | 166.1 ± 10.3 | 166.6 ± 10.2 | 163.0 ± 9.5 | 166.7 ± 10.4 | |||
| BMI * (kg·cm−2) | 52,735 | 25.7 ± 6.3 | 25.8 ± 5.8 | 24.9 ± 5.8 | 25.7 ± 5.9 | |||
| Weight change within three months | ||||||||
| Unchanged * | 19,139 (32%) | 25,164 (40%) | 3153 (28%) | 7338 (37%) | ||||
| Increase | 4335 (7.3%) | 4997 (8%) | 671 (6%) | 1990 (10%) | ||||
| Loss | 26,790 (45%) | 24,928 (39%) | 4989 (44%) | 7356 (37%) | ||||
| Do not know | 4020 (6.8%) | 3679 (6%) | 1339 (12%) | 1205 (6%) | ||||
| Missing | 4842 (8.2%) | 4521 (7%) | 1127 (10%) | 1887 (10%) | ||||
| Eating last week | ||||||||
| Normal * | 24,679 (42%) | 29,898 (47%) | 4731 (42%) | 9973 (50%) | ||||
| Less than normal | 12,613 (21%) | 12,618 (20%) | 2526 (22%) | 4047 (20%) | ||||
| Less than a half | 8979 (15%) | 7894 (12%) | 1628 (14%) | 2262 (11%) | ||||
| Less than a quarter | 7358 (12%) | 7691 (12%) | 1076 (9%) | 1433 (7%) | ||||
| Missing | 5497 (9.3%) | 5188 (8%) | 1318 (12%) | 2061 (10%) | ||||
| Eating on nutritionDay | ||||||||
| All * | 22,046 (37%) | 22,232 (35%) | 4131 (37%) | 8496 (43%) | ||||
| Half | 15,327 (26%) | 15,141 (24%) | 3363 (30%) | 5054 (26%) | ||||
| Quarter | 8256 (14%) | 7262 (11%) | 1592 (14%) | 2206 (11%) | ||||
| Nothing (eating allowed) | 3696 (6.3%) | 3666 (6%) | 698 (6%) | 927 (5%) | ||||
| Nothing (eating not allowed) | 3686 (6.2%) | 8717 (14%) | 372 (3%) | 875 (4%) | ||||
| Missing | 6115 (10%) | 6271 (10%) | 1123 (10%) | 2218 (11%) | ||||
| Mobility on nutritionDay | ||||||||
| Normal | 35,846 (61%) | 37,439 (59%) | 3731 (33%) | 12,227 (62%) | ||||
| With help | 12,299 (21%) | 14,110 (22%) | 4557 (40%) | 3838 (19%) | ||||
| Bedridden | 5587 (9.4%) | 6832 (11%) | 1841 (16%) | 1732 (9%) | ||||
| Missing | 5394 (9.1%) | 4908 (8%) | 1150 (10%) | 1979 (10%) | ||||
| Fluid status on nutritionDay | ||||||||
| Normal * | 28,499 (48%) | 3619 (6%) | 1147 (10%) | 1284 (6%) | ||||
| Overload | 6214 (11%) | 33,636 (53%) | 5836 (51%) | 1142 (58%) | ||||
| Deficit | 3267 (6%) | 2723 (4%) | 985 (9%) | 886 (4%) | ||||
| Missing | 21,146 (36%) | 23,311 (37%) | 3311 (29%) | 6178 (31%) | ||||
| Any Intensive Care Stay before nutritionDay | 4143 (7.0%) | 10,465 (17%) | 564 (5%) | 1464 (8%) | ||||
| Medical specialty | ||||||||
| General internal medicine | 29,173 (49%) | 3958 (6%) | ||||||
| Oncology | 11,412 (19%) | 1953 (3%) | ||||||
| Gastroenterology/Hepatology | 9744 (16%) | 1350 (2%) | ||||||
| Cardiology | 5401 (9.1%) | 1405 (2%) | ||||||
| Nephrology | 1785 (3.0%) | 370 (1%) | ||||||
| Infectiology | 1611 (2.7%) | 149 (0%) | ||||||
| Neurology | 592 (1%) | 4442 (22%) | ||||||
| Psychiatry | 17 (0%) | 1409 (7%) | ||||||
| ENT | 2195 (3%) | 1272 (6%) | ||||||
| General surgery | 28,310 (45%) | |||||||
| Cardiothorcic surgery | 2013 (3%) | |||||||
| Orthopaedic surgery | 7803 (12%) | |||||||
| Trauma | 2160 (3%) | |||||||
| Neurosurgery | 1717 (3%) | |||||||
| Gynecology | 1198 (2%) | 1151(6%) | ||||||
| Long-term care | 526 (1%) | 9885 (88%) | ||||||
| Other | 5955 (9%) | 11,401(58%) | ||||||
| Pediatrics | 46 (0%) | 101 (1%) | ||||||
| Geriatrics | 1572 (2%) | 1785 (12%) | ||||||
* indicates the reference categories.